By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com ‘An American River’ an hour-long documentary, shines a light on how most Americans live within a mile of a river, but unchecked factors such as climate change, raw ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com How many options are there to stream KFSN’s news live? Well, there’s Roku, Hulu, the station’s news app on your phone, Samsung TV, the station’s website, Apple ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Increasingly, local TV stations look to local programming options to air during the day instead of syndicated shows. The advantages of local TV station-produced programming is, depending on ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WDBJ, Gray’s CBS affiliate in Roanoke, begins “In Our Hometowns”, a new initiative dedicated to shining a light on the stories shaping our local communities. “In Our Hometowns ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The Delmarva Sports Network (DSN), a 24/7 live and local all sports TV station that covers the Salisbury/Ocean City, Maryland DMA as well as Kent County, Delaware and ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In an unusual, but innovative programming strategy, Gray Media is marking the 30th anniversary of the 1995 World Series winning Atlanta Braves by showing eight regular season games ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com On Friday, Valentine’s Day, February 14th, a crowd estimated at a million people lined the city streets of Philadelphia for the 8-mile Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl Parade ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WSFL, Scripps independent station in Miami, is launching a weekend version of Inside Soth Florida, which airs weekdays at 6 p.m. Inside South Florida is an original, local ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Elizabeth Vargas is approaching her two-year anniversary at NewsNation, and the network has a present already picked out. Starting Monday, February 17, Elizabeth Vargas Reports is getting a two-hour ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WGN, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in Chicago, launched two new shows on its WGN+ TV streaming app. What a Day! streams weekdays at 2:00p.m. CT. The talk show recaps ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WAGA, FOX 5, the Fox-owned affiliate in Atlanta, has partnered with Radio One Atlanta to launch a 24/7 audio simulcast channel of the television station’s streaming content. Effective immediately, ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com On Saturday morning, February 8, at 10, WDSU will air the first-ever New Orleans Super Bowl Host Committee Parade, a groundbreaking Mardi Gras-style celebration. This historic event will ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WSB, Cox’s ABC affiliate in Atlanta, delivered 12-weeks of the biggest Southeastern Conference college football games of the season followed by live SEC GameDay on 2 post-game ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KCRA’s latest documentary is another example of the station’s push to do more long-form documentaries that started in 2020. And that push happened organically due to the success of ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com There is no news more important than weather. It affects everybody all the time but differently depending on where you are. The weather can change from one day ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WISN, Hearst’s ABC affiliate in Milwaukee, is televising a half-hour special Tuesday night, October 15, titled ‘Project CommUNITY: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage’ on the final day of National Hispanic ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The Seattle Kraken arrive on free over-the-air live television as KING 5 and KONG announce the local broadcast schedule for regular season Seattle Kraken games. KING is Tegna’s NBC ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In the old days of television, as David Hershey says, finding your channel number wasn’t much of an issue. “Today, with so many screen options, that’s become a ...
By Paul Greeley Manager, News Blues Paul@newsblues.com 817-578-6324 Jeff Kreiner, long-time VP of marketing for CBS and other broadcast networks, and most recently executive producer for LMAO Productions, a comedy program, died ...
Thirteen CBS O&Os will soon turn up on Sinclair’s NewsON streaming service. Among the stations jumping on the NewsON platform are outlets in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco. Thrills and ...
When NBC announced that its long-running soap opera “Days of Our Lives” was to be bumped in favor of a newly-created “NBC News Daily,” an hour produced by its NBC News Now streaming hub, ...
Investigate TV is Gray Television’s branded investigative reporting unit that it acquired when it absorbed Raycom awhile back. And Gray is showing its commitment to the project. Gray is beefing up staffing for Investigate ...
Coming October 4th, it is a revival in St. Louis as Tegna’s KSDK re-launches it’s noon newscast, last seen in 2017. As before, Ryan Dean (right) will co-anchor the restored program and will be ...
Court TV, the only multi-platform network devoted to live, gavel-to-gavel coverage, in-depth legal reporting and expert analysis of the nation’s most important and compelling trials, announced today a new original true-crime series hosted by ...
With all the COVID-19-related problems at the CBS Broadcast Center in midtown Manhattan that we’ve been chronicling here, it is perfectly reasonable that other CBS stations would be preparing for the possibility that they ...
Now that many of you are working out of the home, what do you miss most about being in the office? What DON’T you miss? Little random things pop up working out of the ...
Six television networks began showing President Donald Trump’s briefing on the coronavirus outbreak late Monday, but only Fox News Channel stuck it out to the end nearly two hours later. According to The Associated Press, ...
A number of stations are also expanding their news coverage during the COVID-19 public health emergency. NBC-owned WMAQ has expanded its 6 p.m. weeknight newscast to a full hour. The additional half-hour bumps the ...
Blaze Media has announced the US launch of Blaze Live, its ad-supported, 24/7 digital linear streaming channel, distributed via Pluto TV. The news and entertainment channel will feature an array of first-run content from ...
This week, NBC-owned stations in eight of the nation’s biggest markets replaced what would have normally been the first 25 minutes of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” with more local news. At the same ...
The PGA Tour has inked a nine-year media rights package with incumbent broadcasters CBS Sports and NBC Sports, while carving out a new over-the-top package which places streaming exclusivity in the hands of ESPN+, ...
If NBCUniversal is anxious about how coronavirus may affect its plans for the Olympic Games, it is trying not to show it, The NY Times reports. “The Olympics are obviously on everybody’s mind,” Brian Roberts, ...
Fox Corporation Monday announced it has completed the previously announced purchase of Seattle stations KCPQ-TV FOX 13 and KZJO-TV MyNetworkTV 22 as well as Milwaukee station WITI FOX 6 from Nexstar Media Group . ...
Sinclair went eyeball-to-eyeball with YouTube over the issue of compensation for the 21 regional sports networks it bought from Disney last year. YouTube promptly informed its subscribers that the RSNs would be dropped beginning ...
NFL owners and the NFL Players Association are likely nearing a collective bargaining agreement after owners approved the terms Thursday. Media companies and the NFL have been waiting for the CBA’s approval before negotiating new ...
Chicago TV Critic Robert Feder says folks in the windy City weren’t to thrilled with the launch of the Marquee Sports Network. He writes: “The Chicago Cubs and Sinclair Broadcast Group had more than ...
The nation’s only African American news network, based in Tallahassee, launched nationwide Monday. Founded by chairman J.C. Watts Jr. and CEO Bob Brillante, the Black News Channel (BNC) represents the African American community in mainstream media. The network ...
Comcast’s NBC and Sky will soon attempt to overturn three decades of CNN dominance in international television news, jointly launching a new channel hoping to get a slice of the global news audience. NBC ...
Today is debut day for “What’s New” on Tegna’s WKYC in Cleveland, the latest station experiment in calling news anything but. So what’s new? We’re told that Jay Crawford and Betsy Kling will take ...
Nexstar Media Group, which bought Tribune Media in September, is launching a nightly three-hour national newscast on cable channel WGN America based in Chicago. Competing with established cable news networks such as CNN and ...
MSNBC talent and staffers are bracing for a major 2020 shakeup amid discussion of moving ratings-challenged Chuck Todd to a morning slot and execs talking with Fox News escapee Shepard Smith. The goal of any ...
Fox Television Stations (FTS) Tuesday debuted Fox Soul, a live, interactive and advertisement-supported OTT streaming channel, positioned for the African American viewer. The channel’s programs aim to “celebrate black culture and highlight the real ...
Nexstar Media Group said it signed a multi-year deal with Nielsen. Nielsen will provide measurement services for Nexstar’s 197 television stations and digital subchannels in 115 markets, and national ratings for WGN America. “Nexstar’s ...
If you were watching local TV coverage of the New Year events, you probably saw Nexstar‘s offering. Six States saw “Texas Live”, it trended on Twitter and LIVE coverage online in many markets. Lot’s ...
Jada Pinkett Smith won’t be the only Hollywood notable with a talk show on Mark Zuckerberg’s social media platform. After the May cancellation of his Emmy-winning NBC daytime show, Steve Harvey will bring a ...
Bill Hemmer has for years been the faithful morning co-anchor at Fox News Channel, boosting the profiles of time-slot partners like Megyn Kelly, Martha MacCallum and Shannon Bream. Now he’s set to step into his own ...
After a year of covering all sorts of local news, December can be kinda lame in newsrooms as staff begins to look forward to time off and the story ideas in the morning meeting ...
Tegna-owned WATL Atlanta started a primetime newscast Monday from co-owned NBC affiliate WXIA. 11Alive News: Primetime airs from 8 to 10 p.m. The expansion will lead into WXIA’s current 10-11 p.m. broadcast on WATL. ...
If it happens in DFW, Unclebarkey.com is all over it and Ed Bark is reporting KXAS (NBC) *may* be looking at a new locally produced show. Bark has learned that NBC5 is taking a ...
Disney backed up its claims that Disney+’s first-day glitches were the result of high consumer demand, revealing Tuesday that the streaming service had hit 10 million signups since its Nov. 12 launch. CEO Bob ...
CBS and Viacom Monday announced senior appointments for ViacomCBS’ content and digital leadership. The appointments, will enable ViacomCBS to deliver on its distinct competitive position as one of the most important content producers and ...
Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial will be a centerpiece of the newly relaunched Court TV brand. The network relaunched in May by Katz Broadcasting under a license from Time Warner, which ran a different network under ...
As we cover the big stories, day in day out, sometimes it’s the little things back at the station, like a new set that may make you stick your chest out a bit. WBRE/WYOU ...
….was an old slogan associated with the Phone Book back about the time of the Dinosaurs. But now, your fingers can help you shop, using your phone while watching your favorite show. NBCUniversal has been ...
And only your block…. WLFT is a low-power television station in Baton Rouge, LA that operates three fulltime secondary channels which carry local programming as well as content from MeTV and Antenna. On November ...
Nexstar Media Group said it is expanding the local news programming at KRCW-TV, the CW affiliate in Portland, Oregon, a station acquired when Nexstar bought Tribune Broadcasting earlier this year. The station’s 10 p.m. newscast ...
Shepard Smith has left the Fox News building, but his hour will remain staffed by employees from the network’s news division. Bret Baier, Chris Wallace, Brit Hume, Shannon Bream, Martha MacCallum, Bill Hemmer and ...
Recently, we’ve mentioned the Black News Channel, a new 24/7 news channel geared toward African American audiences. J.C. Watts Jr., the former Republican congressman from Oklahoma, is the chairman and co-founder of the venture. ...
If you happen to be a Food Network fan, you’ll love Wednesdays announcement from Discovery: “We are thrilled to announce the launch of Food Network Kitchen, a first-of-its-kind direct-to-consumer product with exclusive streaming technology ...
If you live in Chicago and love the Cub’s listen up. NBC Sports Chicago is warning viewers that when the Cubs seasons ends, subscribers of AT&T’s DirecTV and Dish Network could lose the channel. The Cubs Major League ...
We all know, it’s always something isn’t it? President Trump was in Albuquerque New Mexico Monday evening and the stations had a lot of coverage. However, something happened at KOB (NBC) early on. While ...
Relentless with Kate Snow premieres on Oxygen Friday, October 4. Kate Snow hosts, and each episode examines stories where everyday citizens tirelessly pursue justice for their loved ones. “Through emotional testimonials and exclusive interviews, the ...
WHO, Tribune’s NBC affiliate in Des Moines, Iowa, is packing up and hittin’ the road all this week for RVTV 2019, the station’s annual week-long Iowa/Iowa State tailgate party. TV NewsCheck reports this is ...
Gray TV, announced Wednesday it will launch a new weekly program this Sunday at 6:30 a.m. called “Full Court Press with Greta Van Susteren.” Gray’s Chief National Political Analyst, Greta Van Susteren, will host ...
